Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week 800 enthusiastic listeners wrote in-including some sociologists, scientists, radio technicians-"the most literate fan mail" Funt has ever seen. The dissenting minority, if there was any, could take its cue from the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle, which said: "With this new Machiavellian inspiration, radio crosses the last threshold of privacy. . . . The whole country seems likely to be plagued with hidden microphones...
Nathaniel C. Nash, IV '45 crossed the threshold of the Veterans Guidance Center in the Vanserg Building last Thursday afternoon, hesitatingly took a look around, and involuntarily become the ten-thousandth man to seek the Center's advice since March, 1945 when it first opened for business...
...Threshold of Silence. All the great creators are lonely travelers. For their vocation and their plight, one of the loneliest frontiers of modern science-jet propulsion-has found an accurate metaphor. They are commissioned (but at their own risk) to cross the supersonic thresholds of the mind-the point at which the familiar sound-lengths of human life dissolve into inhuman silence. If they pass the barrier of dissolution, they may investigate in uncompetitive privacy the mysteries inaudible to the other minds. If they can recross the sonic sill, alive and sane, they may report what they have experienced...
...Threshold? Representatives shopped around, listening to speeches. In a discussion panel headed by George F. Zook, of the American Council on Education, they could hear about the international exchange of cultural films. In the panel on Social Tensions, Dr. Quincy Wright, professor of international law at' the University of Chicago, was offering (for those who could follow it) a new definition of war. Said Dr. Wright: "War is a condition where tensions pass the threshold of a certain intensity of pressure." Some of these tensions, summed up the panel secretary later, could be measured-"like gastric ulcers, and crime...
...peoples there must be, whoever brings it. But the real task remains-to find exact definitions for the words "liberty, democracy, justice" . . . that are everywhere acceptable and applicable. Because of past failure to form these definitions we have been brought away from what should have been the bright threshold of peace close to what looks like the dark doorway...